Horseshoe



G. I. ROPER.

(No Model.)

HORSESHOE.

No. 566,020. Patented Aug. 18,1896,

UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES F. ROPER, OF HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS.

HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 566,020, dated August 18, 1896. Application filed May 4:, 1896. Serial No. 590,138. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES F.'ROPER, of Hopedale, county of Worcester, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Horseshoes, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanyin g drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a horseshoe having calks which may be readily renewed, thus avoiding taking ofi the shoe to sharpen calks, which injures the hoof.

My improved shoe, when made in its simplest and cheapest form, is composed of metal of substantially uniform section, bent, waved, crimped, or offset where the calks are to be attached,the said bent portions being grooved for the reception of the calks, the said grooves being shown as segments of circles, the bottoms of the grooves having openings extended through the top of the shoe for the shanks of the calks, the said shanks being shaped to receive or cooperate with a pin or looking device, as willbe described.

Figure 1 is an under side view of my improved horseshoe; Fig. 2, a top side view; Fig. 3, a view of the toe end; Fig. 4, a section on the line w m, Fig. 1; and Fig. 5, a view of a calk detached.

The shoe is shown as composed of a bar of steel or iron A,which may be of uniform width and thickness, the said bar being subjected to the action of suitable dies to crimp or wave the metal, as at a a b b, so as to leave at the top of the shoe suitable depressions to be used, as will be described, in the fastening of the calks d.

The under or wearing side of the shoe at the points where it is bent, crimped, or offset is provided with like calk-receiving, notches 61, one of which is shown at the heel of the shoe, the said notches being preferably in the shape of a segment of a circle, and the central part of the segment is cut through to the top or hoof side of the shoe to leave a passage d for the reception of the shanks d of the calks, the upper curved or segmental top edges of the calks entering said notches d and being embraced and held thereby.

The shanks d have suitable holes or passages, as at 2, for the reception of a pin or cotter-key or other suitable locking device, it lying in the depression at the top of the shoe and between the shoe and the hoof, when it may be readily reached and knocked out or withdrawn when it is desired to apply a new, fresh, or sharp calk.

.By giving to the calks the shape of segments of circles they will, when on the shoe, act to brace the shoe not only against forward or backward but also lateral slipping.

The calks may be cut out of sheet-steel or dropforged.

This invention is not limited-in all instances to the exact shape shown for the exposed part of the calk, as the arc of the circle of the calk or its exact curvature may vary more or less and yet be within the scope of my invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'

1. A horseshoe composed of a bar bent, waved, or crimped to offset portions thereof at the under side or face of the shoe and leave at the top of the shoe opposite said offset p0rtions corresponding depressions, substantially as described.

2. A horseshoe composed of a bar bent, waved, or crimped to offset portions thereof at the under side or face of the shoe and leave at the top of the shoe opposite said ofiset portions corresponding depressions, the said offset portions being provided with arc-shaped slots, and having holes leading from the bottoms of said slots into. the depressions at the upper side of the shoe, substantially as described.

3. A horseshoe composed of a bar bent, waved or crimped to offset portions thereof at the under side or face of the shoe andleave at the top of the shoe opposite said ofiset portions corresponding depressions, the said offset portions being provided with arc-shaped slots, and having holes leading from the bottoms of said slots into the depressions at the upper side of the shoe, combined with areshaped calks having stems, the bodies of the said calks entering the said arc-shaped slots while their shanks pass through said holes, and with looking devices to engage said shanks and hold the said calks in place, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed m name to this specification in the presence of 10 two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES F. ROPER. Witnesses:

FRANK J. DUTCHER, W. E. STODDARD. 

